From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 16:28:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1547716A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:28:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from cobra.acceleratedweb.net (cobra-gw.acceleratedweb.net [207.99.79.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9B5843D31 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:28:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Received: (qmail 11485 invoked by uid 110); 13 Jan 2004 00:31:33 -0000 Received: from ool-18baaf5c.dyn.optonline.net (HELO win2kpc1) (24.186.175.92) by cobra.acceleratedweb.net with SMTP; 13 Jan 2004 00:31:33 -0000 From: "Simon" To: "bv@wjv.com" , "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:28:14 -0500 Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2661) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;4) In-Reply-To: <20040113000703.GE93628@wjv.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20040113002827.B9B5843D31@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: Server Hardware. X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:28:30 -0000 Well, for one, as far as I can tell, LSI has stopped developing Mylex cards, so only the old cards are available. Second, and as I recall, in the past, MegaRAID cards were below the quality of Mylex, which is why we went with Mylex over MegaRAID cards. However, and perhaps, MegaRAID SCSI 320 series kicks ass. Any input? like I said, I'm just looking for newer solution. The reason why I asked about Adaptec zero channel series is because they are supported by Supermicro, the motherboards we primarily use for our servers. The idea of getting a barebone server where you don't have to mess with custom-order cabling is very attractive. And in 1U servers, this frees up valuable expansion slot and again avoids messy cabling. -Simon On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:07:03 -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote: >Putting quill to paper and scribbling furiously on Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 15:14 , >Simon missed achieving immortality when he said: > > >> Yes, Mylex are great, that's what we have been using thus far. >> However, Mylex is no longer in business as LSI Logic acquired >> them. So now, we are looking for different (perhaps better) solution. > >> Perhaps someone put those zero channel controllers to a good >> beating and can share their experience. > >What problems do you see with LSI. LSI Logic acuiring the business >is just "SCSI coming home". NCR originally developed most of the >SCSI as I recall, and LSI is the old NCR group - so if any of the >original team is stil there that means they have more years of >knowledge than other vendors. > >I'm just asking this as question - having no hands on use of their >product and just knowhing their backgroun. > >Bill >-- >Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >